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Although we’ve become accustomed to astounding political occurrences in the region, the latest developments in Iraq are by far the most spectacular.
It was hard to believe that the entire province of Nineveh and its capital, Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, could f

The recent Cabinet measures aiming at regulating official car usage, including the decision to withdraw cars from high government officials and cancel permits already issued authorising the use of such cars, is a step in the right direction.
It should be pursued to the very end

Last week was a glorious season of celebration for Jordan and the Jordanian people.
Almost simultaneously, the country had to commemorate its National Day, to memorialise the anniversary of the Al Israa wal Miraj, the Prophet Mohammad’s nocturnal journey during which

Just three days before the critical deadline of April 29, marking the end of the 9-month-long period for negotiating a Palestinian-Israeli peace, PA President Mahmoud Abbas reaffirmed his terms for extending the talks for some additional time.
Addressing the Palestinian Central

The kidnapping of our ambassador to Libya, Fawaz Al Aitan puts the country suddenly before a painful human tragedy as well as a grave political crisis.
Imagine the impact of the shock on the ambassador’s immediate family, his wife and his kids with him in Tripo

Former Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali has just been sentenced to life in absentia by a Tunisian military court, for the fourth time in the last two years, mostly for complicity in the murder of protesters in the 2011 revolution that led to his quick ouster.
Ben Ali h

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